Word: companion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...memorial window of the class of '60 has a companion which has been placed near it-that of the class of '80, in the Memorial Hall at Cambridge. The subjects treated in the two compartments are in strong contrast to the figures of the youthful soldiers in the deep-toned battle picture or the opposite side of the hall. Homer the mighty, Virgil the sweet-voiced, are the figures chosen to adorn this window. The composition is charming. The fault which some people have found with the '60 window, of its admitting too little light, cannot here apply...
...common world of ordinary things. Prof. Newton, as is his habit, started off on the discussion of an abstruse problem. As the Professor went deeper and deeper. Mr. Phelps' mind wandered further and further from what was being said. At last Mr. Phelps' attention was called back to his companion by the Professor's winding up with, "Which, you see, gives us 'X.'" "Does it?" asked Mr. Phelps, thinking that in politeness he ought to reply something. "Why, doesn't it?" excitedly exclaimed the Professor, alarmed at the possibility that a flaw had been detected in his calculations. Quickly...
...party who were in high spirits, pushed towards the deeper water. One of the gentlemen and two of the ladies were at once washed into shoal water in an exhausted condition, while the other young ladies finding themselves in great danger called for help. Mr. Thayer and his companion rushed to their assistance but the under-tow was too much for them and all four were swept under, being drowned, of course instantly...
...lazy and stupid pupils. On one occasion two undergraduates of his college brought him their exercises for correction. To the first he merely said, "Thank you, Mr. A., that is very nice, very nice indeed." To the second when he anxiously inquired as to the possible fate of his companion in an approaching examination, "O your friend Mr. A.? He, too, will be ploughed...
...Youth's Companion for 1883 are to appear articles by a recent Harvard graduate on "Shifts and Expedients of College Life...